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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files
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"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> So please don't bother with just whitespace changes unless you
> are going to cleanup a <driver | fs | module | etc> completely.

And if you're going to do that, do the whitespace cleanup _first_, so the
substantive changes to the driver/fs/module/etc can be sanely understood
and reverted if necessary.

I frequently sneakily remove all newly-added trailing whitespace from the
patches people send me.  In 15 years it'll all be gone.

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